The last mission of the European launch vehicle Ariane 5 was successful. On her 117th flight, she deploys two communications satellites. The successor Ariane 6 is delayed and will probably not start until 2024.
In Germany, the Bundestag is not allowed to pass the building energy law this week, the constitutional court decides. MEPs must have enough time not only to read the bill, but also to understand it.
Like some MPs, some NFT speculators feel cheated. They decide to hire a lawyer. Of course they use a smart contract for this, but that wasn’t so smart, because they were promptly relieved of several tens of thousands of US dollars – the most important reports in a nutshell.
The Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket has successfully completed its last mission. According to the European Space Agency ESA, two communications satellites from Germany and France were launched. This closes an important chapter in ESA history, as Ariane 5 has reached the end of its service life, which began in 1996 and has now ended with its 117th flight. It is to be replaced by Ariane 6, but the successor has not yet taken off. After several delays, the first launch is expected to take place in 2024.
The German Federal Constitutional Court prohibits the German Bundestag from voting on the heating law presented by the federal government this week. The reason for the temporary order of the constitutional court is the enormous haste that the government coalition is showing: Tuesday afternoon they presented a comprehensive amendment to the government bill, which was waved on Wednesday by the responsible committee and on Friday in the second and third reading in the should be voted on in plenary. That leaves no time for other members of parliament to read the text, let alone discuss it. The constitutional court slows the Bundestag down because the heating law was pushed through too quickly.
A group of NFT speculators sees themselves doubly damaged: First, they blindly bought new NFTs, which turned out to be not very creative after acquisition. Enraged, 74 people who claim they lost millions decided to sue the sellers. To do this, the deprived founded a decentralized organization (DAO) with its own cryptocurrency and smart contract. This is an often misleading term; This is also the case here: Unauthorized persons used an error in the smart contract and stole around 62,000 euros. Angry NFT buyers set up their own cryptocurrency and are robbed immediately.
It wasn’t that long ago that you could at least replace the battery yourself on a smartphone. Nowadays, the devices are more complicated in design and you even have to dare to replace the battery [-–] if you can get a replacement part at all. In the meantime, political pressure is increasing on manufacturers to make their products more repair-friendly and to ensure easier access to spare parts. All device classes are affected, from smartphones to notebooks to washing machines. This is the classic territory of the IFA, where the industry will meet again in Berlin in just under two months. One topic is sustainability in electronics: “Repair is easy”.
Using a Raspberry Pi, wooden beams, cardboard and parts of an old bicycle, a hobbyist built a robot that autonomously detects weeds in the garden and burns them with focused sunlight. The rather provisional-looking robot combines sophisticated techniques. The robot consists of a wooden frame and has rear wheels from an old bicycle that are driven by two DC motors. The robot is controlled by a Raspberry Pi, which also handles the weed detection and the precise alignment of the Fresnel lens used, which bundles the sunlight and sizzles away the weeds in this Raspberry Pi handicraft project: Robot kills weeds autonomously with sunlight.
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